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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 years ago (38 children)

The tech industry understands consent just fine, the corpos will ignore the idea however if it means less revenue and can't have that because capitalism.

I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to every one of these shitty clickbait article authors about "tech industry" and "software engineering circles" that the authors aren't dense and know random code monkeys aren't evil or too stupid to figure out opt-in is more ethical, they just work for corps that have to make money because capitalism, but they post their stupid garbage anyway because it gets clicks.

Don't post it here.

[–] porgamrer@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

Why would you discourage interesting, original journalism over such an obtuse nitpick?

They are clearly criticising the same capitalist structures that you are. They single out the tech industry because the article is about the misuse of tech, not because they think rank and file tech workers are deviants.

Frankly it comes off as fragile and dismissive, and if that's what we're doing we could have just stayed on reddit.

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (13 children)

While the tone of the comment is dismissive, they have a point.

It's not the engineers that are the problem, or even limited to the tech industry. Dark patterns are top-down business decisions, motivated by money.

It's not that the "tech industry doesn't understand consent," but rather that greedy people do evil things. And software is just a low hanging fruit for that kind of business.

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 1 points 2 years ago

There are absolutely the problem, that's actually the difference between a programmer and an engineer: the liability.

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